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What is "processed foods"? Isn't bread a heavily processed food? Is somehow making it at home magically healthier than it being made in a factory? What about whole wheat bread from…

Many Dell PCs have a “SERVICE MODE” jumper that also disables IME

The age verification maybe a good idea if it is used to create a segregated place for kids. But instead of having filters & being able to scan messages, I think it'd be better to n…

It is a very common practice for these companies to rotate competent people between multiple projects. Friend used to work as a senior exec for CG in India

There is nothing wrong with baremetal 2003 style PHP. It is NOT a compiled language. Every line of code in PHP translates to one or more lines of Machine code. As such a framework …

All we need is WFH. That alone will cut down a major portion of the traffic.

USB-C is a mess. Sometimes everything works as intended, but most of the time it doesn’t. Sometimes power wont work, sometimes its the display, other times the USB. Only after repl…

I will cancel my sub and shift to KeePass before installing an Electron Version of 1Password Not only is Electron heavy, but also inherits all the security vulnerabilities of Chrom…

In-App browsers have always been a security nightmare. Similar issues exist with Electron apps as well. But developers continue to use them as HTML + CSS + JS is the easiest way to…

PHP has its uses. Want a simple web app. Great. But speed is inversely proportional to the linecount. At some point it is better to use a compiled language like Go.

Ask them, in person. Many small businesses have unarticulated needs, that they have trouble finding people for. But due to resource constraints those things just get pushed. Specia…

The issue with Google is SEO optimized spam sites beat out real content. Until we get rid of web advertising, it'll continue to be this way. Spam site operators have a huge incenti…

Has anyone else been noticing an increasing trend of people dooming & glooming over low population? Just seems like fear mongering to me. Specially with all the automation today

Citadel’s loss is our gain, so…… yes?

Coz like 99% of all USB devices have a USB-A port

So Coinbase is gonna be bankrupt pretty soon i guess

For me it was pack of sleep. Sleep debt accumulates just like financial debt. Slept like crazy for 2-3 months. 12-14hrs daily. Much better now.

This happens all over the world. Poor people are treated worse than the rich treat their animals

Curated sure. Tailored to individual tastes - absolutely not Kinda like a newspaper

I would suggest watching Death of Stalin (2018) to understand why Russia bad

This is exactly what happens when algorithms tailor what people see on their newsfeed. They will push narratives. One of the main reasons I prefer Reddit is the existence of r/All.…

Have you heard of this guy called Snowden? Or maybe Aaron Swartz. Govts have been harassing them too. One guy even took his life

Another thing to turn off in FireFox. Already have WebRTC, WebGL, WASM, ServiceWorkers etc disabled. Most sites are so much faster without all this junk

Gotta justify the Bilions of $$$ spent on the new campus, while trying to prevent a CMBS collapse